Nick Hanauer Quotes

I was a right winger into the 70's but I left the right in late 70's.

I don’t think I’m all that conservative.

No-one in their right mind would buy the 'New Statesman' and change it from being a left-wing to a right-wing magazine.

There is no denying or hiding the fact that over the years I moved from well on the right of the Conservative Party, much much more to its left, and therefore to the centre of the poltical spectrum.

A conservative is a liberal who got mugged the night before.

I'm not politically motivated. I used to be - passionately. I used to be very Left wing. Then I went very Right wing, and now I rest somewhere in the middle.

We started out as far to the left as we could.

It is one of the truisms of politics that a conservative is often enough a former liberal who has been 'mugged by reality.'

There were more moderate Republicans in those days than there are today.

I didn't suddenly become conservative. It was only the label that changed.

I like to say now that the reason I'm conservative is because I used to be a liberal, and I learned a lot.

I don't think there really is much of a left in America, certainly by European standards even the left is quite right wing here.

Latin America is all moving to the left, from Venezuela to Argentina with rare exceptions, but there's a good left and a bad left.

When most people see the word "radical," they think that it must refer to something left wing. Some people also may think of it as referring to far right-wing marginal groups. But here we have a president of the United States [George W. Bush] at the center of power, sitting in the White House, who is a radical.

I categorically deny that. The American left today as I know it - and believe me, I am very familiar with the American left - is going toward authoritarianism, toward totalitarianism. It's becoming the real right in the United States.

Politically, of course, it's to the Right, but then the whole country is to the Right.

What is considered 'conservative' and what is considered 'liberal' changes in any given era.

MSNBC will never be as liberal as Fox is conservative.

My audience is much more center right, or centrist.

I have nothing against conservative people putting out conservative commentary or doing conservative broadcasting, or liberal people doing liberal broadcasting, or conservative blogs or liberal blogs.

Friends, there is no Left in American politics.

I do believe the Democratic party has moved far to the right. I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes.

Every poll about the Left, the Right, and happiness reveals that the farther left one goes, the less happy the person is likely to be.

It is said that a neo-conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality.